Profile: Lapel Pins and Participant Medal from the 1962 World Figure Skating Championships, Prague, Czechoslovakia Following the February 1961 crash of Sabena Airlines Flight #548, which killed the entire U.S. figure skating world team—plus coaches, parents, family members, and dozens of others—and the subsequent cancellation of the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships scheduled for Prague,… Continue reading 1962 World Figure Skating Championships Pins: Prague Redux.
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1937 European Figure Skating Medal: Strength and Solidarity of Form.
The large and heavy participant medal issued to commemorate the 1937 European Figure Skating Championships is stark and utilitarian in design, perhaps reflective of the uncertain political climate in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s.